Our News

On Sunday our horse had a foal. We decided to keep it. It is brown and white. It is a filly. We are deciding what to call her this evening.
By Claire Egan, 4th Class

On Saturday my uncle's girlfriend's sister had a baby. It is a girl. They called her Alanna.
By Kaitlyn Waugh, 4th Class

On Saturday I went to my cousin's party. They had lots of sweets, a bouncing castle and a big cake.
By Seán Clinton, 2nd Class

On Saturday I was riding my bike. I was going really fast. The handle of the bike got caught in the gate and I fell off and cut my shin.It was sore.
By Mikie McGrath, 2nd Class

It was Kealy's birthday. She got a Tipperary bouncing castle. We had races. I loved the cake.
By Sorcha Scott, 2nd Class

I went to my cousin's birthday party. I liked the bouncing castle.
By Jordan Clinton, 3rd Class

St Patrick's Day

I went to my Daddy's house. We tried to go to a parade but we couldn't find one.
by Michaela Morrissey, 2nd Class

On St Patrick's Day I dyed my hair green and so did AJ. We went to the King's River skipping stones.
by Michael Murphy, 4th Class

On St Patricks Day I went into the parade and I saw two big army tanks and some very old cars. Then I got candy floss and some Pringles.
by Sean Clinton, 2nd Class

On St Patrick's Day I went to a parade with my father and my cousins Tori and Nathan. We had lots of fun. There were lots of different things going on. Then we went to a soccer match in Kilkenny. It was very good.
by Molly Behan, 4th Class

I had a lovely St Patrick's Day. I went to the Littleton parade. I saw somebody dressed up as President Obama. There were lots of men protecting him with guns.
by Sorcha Scott, 2nd Class

On St Patrick's Day my family went to a parade in Kilkenny. A man with a big long beard asked me to get up on a trailer. There were chickens on the trailer. I got off after a while and then we all got ice-cream and went home.
by Mikie McGrath, 2nd Class

St Patrick's Day Céilí

Theatre trip

On Monday we went to see `The song of the Sea`. It was good. They were acting out the show. I thought it was good. After we went and ate our lunch. Then we went back to our school. When we went back to the school we got to play. Then we went inside. When we went inside we did our Maths.
by Michael Ryan, Senior Infants

Hurling Training

Yesterday the 15th of March we were training with Don Lyons our coach.When we started the match Conor Stakelum a former superb Tipperary Hurler arrived at the school. He got 2 All-Ireland Medals with Tipperary. Conor Stakelum played U-21 and Minor with Don Lyons. Conor Stakelum refused to go until one of us scored a goal. When one of us scored a goal Conor Stakelum went crazy. While we played trying despertely to score a goal Conor Stakelum was running up and down the sideline encouraging us all and shouting UP BALLINGARRY.


By Patrick Walton 

Maroon party plans

A few weeks ago we came second  in the school election.
As a result we planned a soccer tournament.We are holding it today 16th of March 2011.
There will be two semi finals and one final.
The two semi finals will be played on half the pitch and the final is full pitch.
Paul and Óran are the refs for the two semi finals and Fiachra is the referee for the final.
There will be fifteen minutes a half.
There are four teams in it and four captains but only one winner

By Paul Clinton Óran Ivors Fiachra Scott

Lá Fhéile Padraig

Tá Lá Fheile Padraig ag teacht.Tá mé ag tnuth leis an lá.Tá mé ag dul go dtí an morshiúil i gCill Chainnigh.Glacfaidh mé páirt ann mar rinceoir Hip Hop.Beidh an spórt agam.Nuair a bheidh an morshiúil thart rachamid go dtí an bialann chun  béile blasta a ithe.Rachamid abhaile an sin.

Cáit  Ní Chléirigh

Lá Fhéile Padraig

Tá Lá Fhéile Padraig ag teacht. Tá mé ag tnuth leis an lá. Rachaidh mé go dtí an morshúil i gCill Chainnigh. Nuair a bheidh an morshúil thart rachaimid abhaile agus feicfimid an morshuil ar an teilífs. Is brea é an lá, Lá Fhéile Padraig.

Seamus McCraith

Lá Fhéile Padraig

Tá Lá Fhéile Padraig ag teacht. Tá mé ag tnuth leis an lá. Tá súil agam go rachaidh mé go dtí an an morshiúl i nDurlas. Rachaimid go dtí an bialann chun béile blásta a ithe. Rachaimid  abhaile an sin. 


Séan o' Caoillí

Leaping Leprechauns

There must be a pot of gold in the Fifth and Sixth Classroom somewhere....

St Patrick's Day Snakes

Today our class made snakes.We had to colour in a snake in different colours.There were 34 spaces to colour.Then we glued a orange card to the snake.We had to leave it to dry for a minute.We had to cut them out and they would go 'spriiing'. Then they were finished.

Sarah Walton, 4th Class

Junior Room Theatre Trip

Yesterday we went on a trip. I sat beside my friend Ronan Mullally. I had great fun with him. We went to watch Barnstorm theatre group. They put on a very good show called "The Song From The Sea". It was about a little boy called Josh who heard a song coming from the sea. I went on the bus with my class

By Ben Owens

Poem Irish Election Day 25/2/2011

Today is the Irish Election Day
Where the Irish Government was in disarray
The country is in trouble cause the clown Brian Cowen
Turned the country up-side-down


Many people like to vote
They decide from canvasser's quotes
Some are good and some are bad
Fianna Fáil we already had

Kenny's seat is looming large
But Eamon Gilmore is ready to charge
Martin and Adam going slow
But it's up to you to say who's to go.


By Aiden Mullally

History in the making 31st Dáil

We have a new Government in our country. It is led by Enda Kenny who is the leader of Fine Gael. They are in coalition with Labour. There are 113 members. Fine Gael have a huge majority of seats in the Dáil. It is the31st Dáil. Enda Kenny is the 13th Taoiseach in Ireland. Fine Gael have 78 seats. Labour got 35 seats. Eamon Gilmore leader of Labour is the Tánaiste. Enda Kenny is from Castlebar in Mayo.

Maria McGrath 5th class

Morning Weather Haiku's 10/3/2011 New Government

We did these Haiku's on the 10th March. A Haiku is a Japanese poem with five syllables in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the second line.

It’s bright and breezy

Trees swaying from side to side

Wet but not too cold

By Fiachra Scott

Windy wet cold  morn

Bright breezy moist and dampening

Mixed bag of weather

By Griffin Ivors

Windy spring morning

Trees swaying from side to side

Wind gushing awful!

By Gerard   O Dwyer

Mornings broken dawn

 Wind blowing today flowing

Not about to rain!

By John Clancy

Cold windy morning

The swift breeze is like a thorn

As it’s far from warm

By Keith Cleere

A windy morning

Gentle breeze full of moisture

It’s a bright morning

Bright blue breezy sky

Spring morning beautiful sight

Daffodils flutter

Óran Ivors!

Sky is brightly blue

Very windy wet cold dull 

Trees dancing bravely

By Paul Clinton

It’s windy and dull

Trees are dancing round and round

Typical morning

By Katie Cleere

Wet outside on grass

Sun is shining but it’s cold

Wind is blowing now

By PatrickWalton

Wind blowing softly.

Sun out but still perishing.

Brightness looming large.

By Jack Kealy

It’s windy and cold

But the day has just started

Trees dance all around

By Maria McGrath

Very moist today

Trees are swishing side to side

Wind very heavy

By Rachel Fitzpatrick

Weather bright and wet

Wind blowing the dancing leaves

Trees sway heavily

By Shannon Dunne

Cold, moist and windy

Leaves galloping all around

Perishing but nice

By Aidan Mullally

James McGrath

Shrove Tuesday

Today is Pancake Tuesday. Fifth and Sixth Class made the batter on Monday. We were called to the Parents' Room. I put chocolate on my pancake and then I ate it.
Michaela Morrissey, 2nd Class

We made pancakes up in the Parents' Room and we got to eat them. The parents came up. They helped make the pancakes and Aine flipped the pancakes up in the air.
AJ Dunne, 2nd Class

Today is Pancake Tuesday, 8th of March. Yesterday Fifth and Sixth made the batter. Parents came in to help us. We went up to the Parents' Room at twelve o'clock. I had four pancakes with lemon, sugar and chocolate. They were very tasty.
Anna Ryan, 3rd Class

We had pancakes today. The pancakes were lovely. Thanks for the pancakes. Anna ate around four pancakes. She must be full!
Daniel Lyons, 4th Class

Today is Pancake Tuesday. Today in school we had pancakes. Yesterday fifth and sixh made the batter.They used flour, eggs, butter and milk.We put sugar, lemon and chocolate syrup on the pancakes.
Megan Kavanagh, 4th Class.

Spike Ball

St Joseph's N.S. were delighted to welcome back former students Caoilfhionn Ivors, Sharon Clinton and Leyanna O'Shea yesterday. Now in Transition Year in the Convent the three girls took Fifth and Sixth Class for a Spike Ball training session. The session was very enjoyable and well run and our students are already looking forward to next weeks training session

Our School Elections

Our School Elections were held on Friday, 18th February. The parties competing were: Fianna Sports, The Sports Party, The Maroon Party, Fianna Talent, The Olympics Party, MM Party and Fianna Meg. Each candidate had to come up with activities for the rest of the students to do on Wednesday for the last hour. Michael Murphy of the MM Party advocated playing soccer for the hour. Anna Ryan of Fianna Talent wanted to hold a talent show. Mikie McGrath of  The Olympics Party wanted to organise a treasure hunt. Megan Kavanagh of Fianna Meg promised to hold a fun table quiz. Oran Ivors of the Maroon Party wanted to play soccer or watch a DVD depending on the weather. Gerard O'Dwyer of Fianna Sports wanted to hold a sports quiz. Maria McGrath of The Sports Party promised an hour of various sporting activities.
After the candidates spoke about their plans all the students voted using specially designed ballot sheets. The Sports Party secured 18 votes on the First Count which made them the winners.

Sports Afternoon
The Sports Afternoon was organised by the Sports Party. There were 3 activities, basketball, soccer and tag rugby. There was a supervisor at each sport. We had to divide 1st class to 6th class into 6 teams. There were 2 teams at each sport playing a match against each other. Everybody had a great time. We didn't have to wear any uniform. We also got a night off homework.
Maria McGrath (Sports Party Leader)